Accessing the DVD drive with ftpii

I remember way back in the 4.2 and previous days, I could easily access the DVD drive (whether it be a DVD or a Wii disk) using ftpii. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost that capability, and Google isn't exactly helping me.

I'm running 4.3 on a US Wii, bought well before Nintendo killed DVD functionality, updated boot2, etc. (I believe it's from December, 2007) with the latest HBC installed (1.08). I have bootmii and everything set up already; however, ftpii is unable to mount the disk, despite searches telling me that HBC 1.08 should innately have the ability to do so without using a DVDX Installer like we had to before.

Is there something I'm missing, or am I just screwed in this aspect?

ftpii may not have been updated to use the AHBPROT (New HBC) method of reading the DVD drive. In that case you'll have to find someone who can update it for that.

Alright, thanks for the reply ^_^

I guess I could stop being lazy and go back to learning C++ to do it myself >.<

Try using WiiXplorer, I haven't seen it on the Wiki so it might not be supported by Wiibrew (if that's the case, sorry).
Google it
Cheers